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RECORDING FARE REGISTER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFTQE.

ARTHUR E. STONE AND FRANCIS L. OBRYAN, OF FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

RECORDING FARE-REGISTER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR E. STONE and Farmers L. OBRYAN, ofFramingham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in RecordingFare-Registers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to recording registers, and has particularreference to appliances of this kind which are used in street-- cars andother public conveyances, for making a permanent record of the number offares taken on each trip, and of the employee collecting the fares.

The invention is an improvement on that disclosed in the priorapplication filed by us May 26, 1906, Serial No. 318,796, and has forits object not only the general objects attained by the machine of thesaid prior appli :ation, but also to make the machine more compact, toprovide an automatic mechanism for actuating the identification key ofthe conductor, to provide an improved mechanism for taking an impressionof the printing types on a record sheet so that there will be no dangerof an imperfect impression, to provide an improved record holder suchthat a sheet of paper for taking the record may be more readily insertedand removed, to avoid the necessity of using an inked ribbon forcoloring the impression made by the tvpes, to make the mechanism morerigid and stronger than in the device of the earlier application, and ingeneral so to improve the apparatus that it can be made more easily,cheaply and efficiently than before.

Of the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 represents an elevation of theapparatus embodying our invention, with the cover removed to show theworking parts. Fig. 2 represents a similar view, showing theidentification members and key actuator in a. different position. Figs.8 and & representfragmentary sectional views illustrating the characterof key employed for identification of the operator, in two positions,that is, while being inserted and after being moved to set theidentification devices. Fig. 5 represents a fragmentary elevationshowing the position of the printing means while taking an impression.Fig. 6 represents a sectional view of the holder for the record sheet.'7 represents an elevation of a portion of the holder, including thewinding drum.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 18, 1907.

Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

Serial No. 374,429.

Figs. 8 and 9 represent two views in elevation, of the key actuator.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all thefigures.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the main actuator which isoperated by the user of the apparatus, and is held against a fixed stopby a suitable spring. 3 is a link connected with the main actuator andwith a lever & which has a second short arm for reciprocating the link5, which causes an arm (5 to swing and operate the counting ortotalizing disks 7. These parts constitute the totalizing or countingmechanism which is not essentially different from that employed in ourprior application, or in the fare registers ordinarily used instreet-cars, the particular difference being that the shaft 8 whichcarries the disks is perpendicular to the plane of the apparatus insteadof parallel thereto, and that the carrying wheels for carrying tens fromone disk to another are arranged inside the periphery of the disk, in awell-known manner, instead of outside.

9 represents the usual external key which is operated by hand at the endof a trip of the car to set the indicator of the register back to zero.It is mounted on a shaft 10 which carries a spur pinion 11 meshing witha pinion 12 on a short parallel shaft 13, and is connected by bevelpinions or other suitable driving mechanism (not shown) with a disk 14having a pin 15.

The identification members consist of segmental disks 16 which aremounted rotatably on the shaft 8 and carry peripheral raised impressiontypes 17 similar to the raised types 18 of the counting or totalizingdisks. The number of the identification disks is variable, depending onthe number of employees who are likely to be called upon to use theapparatus, and therefore the range of different identification marks orcombinations necessary to distinguish them. Each disk 16 has teeth 19arranged about a pitch circle of short radius with which mesh the teethof a segment 20 of larger radius, mounted to turn about a stud 21. Eachof the segments 20 is connected by a pivot pin 22 with a bar 23 of whichone end is mounted to reciprocate through a slot in a guide plate 24 andis engaged by a spring wire 25 mounted upon the guide plate. The objectof the springs 25 is to hold the other ends of the bars against a block26 which constitutes a key guide, and thereby to retain theidentification disks out of printing position. In the block 26, whichconstitutes a key guide, is a slot 27 adapted to receive a removable key28, and open at the end adjacent the bars 23. Each key has one or moreprojections 29 and is inserted in the slot in the position shown in Fig.3. hen moved to the right, as shown in Fig. 4, the projections of thekey engage one or more of the bars and move them to the right throughdistances varying according to the lengths of these projections. Suchmovement of the bars swings one or more of the segments 20 in right-handrotation, and turns the corresponding identification disks 16 to theleft to bring the types on the peripheries thereof, which represent thevalue of the particula key inserted, into printing position. The key isguided when inserted into the slot 27, by a projecting tongue 30 on theend of an actuating bell-crank lever 31, which projects into the guidingslot 27 and enters a longitudinal groove in the key. This groove has theposition on the key oc cupied by the tongue 30 in Figs. 3 and 1. A stiflspring 32 presses between a fixed abutment and the actuating bell-crank31, tending to move the tongue of the latter toward the right, but thistendency is re s ted by a latch 53% pressed outward by a spring (F 8 and9) which normally lies at the right of the end of-the actuator andsomewhat overlaps the same. This latch 3st projects slightly into thekey-guiding slot 27 so that it is struck by the end of the key wheninserted, and is thereby moved out of the path of the actuator. Thelatter being thus released, is moved toward the right by spring 32 so asto actuate the identification disks through the medium of the key in themanner described. At the same time, a finger 36 011 the key is carriedbehind a web 37 and locks the key so that it cannot be drawn outward.The actuator itself is also locked by an arm 38 pivoted at 39, andhaving a shoulder 40 which is latched over the outer portion of thebellcrank by means of a tension spring all. Thus the key can neither bedrawn directly outward, nor can it be slid to the left so as todisengage its finger 36 from the web 37.

A holder for a record sheet is shown at 12, being pivoted to oscillateabout a stud 43. This holder includes a paper container 4A made from asheet-metal strip rolled into tubular form, with a space between itsmain portion and end for the withdrawal of the paper. From the tubularopen-ended cont ainer, the paper passes to a winding drum 15 securedupon a shaft 16 and having a surrounding sheath 47. This sheath is apartial :ylinder of sheet metal secured at one edge and having the otheredge separated from the drum. This allows the end of the paper recordstrip 48 to be inserted, as shown in Fig. 6, and doubled back.Intermediate the drum and container is an impression member or bed 18having a yielding pressure surface 49 and adjustable by means of screws50. This bed is mounted on the portion of the holder nearest theprinting disks. On the end of the holder is an arm 51 which carries astud 52 provided with an anti-friction roll 53 entering the groove in acylindrical cam 5% on the shaft 13. As appears from Figs. 1 and 5,rotation of the cam moves the im pression bed against the types and awaytherefrom. On the outward movement of the paper holder, the paper is fedso as to bring a fresh surface over the impression bed, by means of apawl 55 pivoted upon a fixed stud 56 and pressed by a spring 57 againsta ratchet wheel 58 on the end of the drum shaft a6. The pawl beingstationary and the teeth upwardly inclined, causes a rotation of thedrum to take place when the impression bed is swung upward. A springpawl 59 holds the drum. For receiving impressions, a tough, flexiblepaper is used, of which a roll is slipped endwise into the con tainer H,and its end carried over to the winding drum. As the surface of theimpression bed 49 is yielding, and the cam causes it to be held at anappreciable time with a firm pressure against the types, a perfectimpression is always obtained, and there is no necessity of employing aninked ribbon or other means for making a colored impress-ion.

The same shaft 13 which carries the impression cam 5st also unlocks andretracts the key actuator 31. This latter is of a pcculiar shape, and asshown in Figs. 8 and 9, its left-hand or upper arm is curved inward at311 and carries on its end a projection 60 which has on the inner sidean inclined cam surface 61. This surface, when the actuator is projectedand locked, lies in the path of revolution of a pin 62 carried by shaft13. lVhenever the pin comes forward at the left side of the shaft, itengages the inclined surface, pushing the upper arm of the actuatorupward, and retracting the actuator and key so that the latter may bewithdrawn and so that the identification disks may be returned to normalposition by the spring 25. Before the actuator can be retracted,however, it must be freed from the latch 38. This is done by the pin 15,which is also revolved by the key shaft 10, and is so arranged as tostrike the end of arm 38 and withdraw the latching shoulder thereof fromthe actuator before the pin 62 engages the actuator.

Pivotally connected with the actuator is a link 63 engaging a stop lever(is pivoted at 65. This stop lever is so arranged that whenever theactuator. is retracted, the stop lever lies in the path of the mainactuator 1 so that no fares can be registered, but when the key actuatoris proj ected, the stop is displaced, allowing the main actuator tooperate. Thus it is impossible for a conductor or other user of theregister to operate it without inserting his identification key.Similarly, the arrangement of the impression cam 5i and retracting pin62 is such that an impression is made before the key can be removed orthe identification disks shifted in any degree.

The construction and arrangement above described make it impossible forany operator of the apparatus to make false returns of the amount takenin, since in the first place, the register cannot be operated at alluntil the identification key is inserted; and in the second place, theidentification key cannot be removed or shifted or the total amountregistered cannot be altered until after an impression has been taken onthe record sheet.

lVe claim l. A recording register comprising, in combination withtotalizing mechanism and counters; key-controlled identification membershaving printing types, and means automatically operative upon insert-ionof a key for moving selected identification members into position forprintin 2. A recording register comprising, in combination withtotalizing mechanism and printing types arranged to be placed successively in printing position by said mechanism; key-controlledidentification members having printing types, and means renderedoperative by insertion of a key for moving the key to throw certain ofthe identification members into position to print selected characters.

3. A recording register comprising, in combination with totalizingmechanism and printing counters operated thereby, identification deviceshaving printing types adapted to be actuated by movement of a separablekey to place selected types in position for printing, an actuatorrendered operative by insertion of a key for so moving the key andlocking it, a paper holder, and manually-operated mechanism forreleasing the key to permit its removal and effecting a relativeapproaching movement between the paper holder and types to produce aprinted impression on the paper, said mechanism being arranged to causethe impression to be taken before release of the key.

4. A recording register comprising, in combination with totalizingmechanism and printing counters operated thereby, identification deviceshaving printing types adapted to be actuated by movement of a separablekey to place selected types in position for printing, a spring-impelledactuator for so moving the key, a latch for restraining the actuatorarranged to be released by insertion of the key, and an impressionmember.

5. A recording register comprising, in

combination with totalizing mechanism and printing counters operatedthereby, identification devices having printing types adapted to beactuated by movement of a separable key to place selected types inposition for printing, an actuator rendered operative by the insertionof a key for automatically so moving the same, a lock for preventingreturn movement of the actuator and withdrawal of the key, an impressionmember, and manually-moved mechanism having connections for moving theimpression member against the types, releasing the actuator lock, andretracting the actuator, in the order named.

6. In a recording register, rotary identification disks havingperipheral impression types and toothed segments, operating gearsegments pivoted adjacent the disks in mesh with the segments thereof,and reciprocatory bars connected with the last-named segments so as tooscillate the latter, and thereby the disks.

7. In a recording register having provisions for the admission of a key,the combination with key-actuated identification devices having means toproduce a printed impression, of a key constructed to actuate saiddevices, and means rendered operative by insertion of said key into theregister, for so moving the key as to put said devices in position toprint selected characters.

8. In a recording register, a record holder consisting of a frame, apaper-winding drum, a sheath secured to and surrounding part of the drumwith one edge separated from the surface thereof to receive the end of astrip of paper, an openended tubular container for receiving a roll ofpaper, and an impression bed between the drum and container, over whichthe paper is led.

9. In a recording register, type-bearing identification members adaptedto be moved into position to print by movement of a separable key, akey-guide adjacent said members, a key actuator adjacent said guide, andresilient means tending to move said actuator in such manner as toengage a key inserted in the guide and move the same to actuate one ormore of the identification members.

10. In a recording register, type-bearing identification members adaptedto be moved into position to print by movement of a separable key, akey-guide adjacent said members, a key actuator adjacent said guide,resilient means tending to move said actuator in such manner as toengage a key inserted in the guide and move the same to actuate one ormore of the identification members, and a web arranged so as to beengaged by a finger or shoulder on the key to prevent retraction of thelatter when pro jected by the actuator.

11. In a recording register, type-bearing identification members adaptedto be moved into position to print by movement of a separable key, aguide having a slot to re ceive a key, a key actuator adjacent saidguide, resilient means tending to move the actuator toward theidentification members, a yielding stop normally restraining saidactuator, located in the path of a key entering the slot, whereby thekey may disengage it from the actuator, permitting the latter to movethe key so as to throw one or more of the identification members intoprinting position.

12. In a recording register, type-bearing identification members adaptedto be moved into position to print by movement of a separable key, aspring-pressed key actuator for so moving such key, a latch for engagingand preventing return of the actuator, and manually-operated mechanismincluding a member for disengaging the latch and means for subsequentlyretracting the actuat-or.

13. In a recording register, type-bearing identification members adaptedto be moved into position to print by movement of a separable key, aspring-pressed actuator for so moving such key having an inclined camsurface, and a manually-operated revolving projection arranged to bearagainst said cam surface, in the course of its revolution, and retractthe actuator.

14:. In a recording register, type-bearing identification membersadapted to be moved into position to print by movement of a separablekey, a holder carrying a record sheet and having an impression membermovably mounted adjacent the types of the identification members, aspring-pressed actuator for advancing a key to throw one or more of thesaid members into printing position and provided with a cam-retractingsurface, and a manually-rotated shaft having a cam portion to force theimpression member of the record holder against the types and aprojection arranged to act on the cam surface of the actuator to retractthe latter after an impression has been taken.

In testimony whereof we have afiiXed our E

